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The Data City: Leadership Change
The Data City has bolstered its leadership team with senior appointments including Mitali Mookerjee as UK Managing Director and Paul Swinney as Chief Economist. Mookerjee brings 20+ years of experience leading data and SaaS businesses; Swinney is former director of policy and research at Centre for Cities.
Source: BusinessCloud UK
The leadership read
Leadership transitions often precede broader the sector bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.
Market context: This lands while the Talent Market Index reads 111.1 (Hot) — up 5.2 versus the prior month — and EMEA signal share is easing (-4.4pts).
The Data City: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow.
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